News Headlines - 10 May 2011

▽Max Mosley loses European privacy case - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/10/max-mosley-loses-european-privacy-case
Max Mosley, the former Formula One boss, lost his legal challenge to force newspapers to warn people before publishing stories exposing their private lives, after a European court ruled on Tuesday that such as system would have a "chilling effect" on the press.

▽How Twitter put the focus on super-injunctions - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13338502
When Jemima Khan tweeted a denial that she had taken out a super-injunction to suppress pictures of herself with Jeremy Clarkson, she unwittingly poured petrol on the flames of the growing row over how Twitter is being used to get round gagging orders being taken out by the rich and famous.

▽Changed landscape for global car-makers - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13312954
Less than two years ago, GM and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy and were bailed out by US taxpayers, while Ford had to sell its luxury division, which included Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo cars.

▽Renewables can never meet energy demand - Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/10/ipcc_srren_pre_release/
The IPCC says that "close to 80 per cent of the world’s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century". However this is derived from the most optimistic possible scenario for renewables, and even then it requires most of the human race to remain in miserable poverty.

▽Skype May Boost Microsoft's Smartphone Business - Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576315460383164614.html
Skype may be the spark that Microsoft Corp.'s struggling smartphone business needs, some analysts say.